Tag: book quote

Author: Ralph Ellison Book: Invisible Man Year: 1952 Quote: “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

Author: Joseph Conrad Book: Heart of Darkness Year: 1899 Quote: “I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself not Read more…

Author: Jules Verne Book: Journey to the Centre of the Earth Year: 1871 Quote: “As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need Read more…

Author: George Bernard Shaw Book: Man and Superman Year: 1903 Quote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Author: Cormac McCarthy Book: The Road Year: 2006 Quote: “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

Author: Stephen King Book: Different Seasons Year: 1982 Quote: “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the Read more…

Author: V. S. Naipaul Book: In A Free State Year: 1971 Quote: “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

Author: William Faulkner Book: The Sound and the Fury Year: 1929 Quote: “Clocks slay time … time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

Author: Haruki Murakami Book: Kafka on the Shore Year: 2002 Quote: “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Book: The Scarlet Letter Year: 1850 Quote: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”